Best Song Ever - Round #1

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Are these all the votes I'm going to get?

Does everyone understand the system? It's not confusing anyone is it?

I'd like to get at least 20 votes in before proceeding to the next round.








"Hallejulah", by Leonard Cohen
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Vince Gurauldi's "Peanuts"
"Lenny" - Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Desafinado" - Stan Getz
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
David Bowie - 'Starman'
The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'
The Specials - 'Ghost Town'
New Order - 'Blue Monday'
Love Minus Zero: no Limit -- Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone -- see above
Honky Tonk Woman -- the Stones
Ode to Joy (9th Symphony, 4th movement) -- ol' Ludwig van
"The times, they are a'changing", Bob Dylan
"Boots of Spanish leather", Bob Dylan
The man Comes Around - Cash
Can I borrow a Feeling - Milhaus van Hauten's Dad
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - CDB
Year of the Cat -- Al Stewart
Sound of Silence-- Simon and Garfunkel
Nowhere Man - The Beatles
Season of the Witch -- Donovan
Just my Imagination -- Temptations
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
The Beatles- Yesterday
Metallica- Fade To Black
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Guns'n'Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine
Don McLean- American Pie
Simon & Garfunkel- Mrs. Robinson
U2- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World
Godsmack - Serenity
Metallica - One
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
RainKing by Counting Crows
New Kids on the Block, "Hangin' Tough"
"Wild Horses" - the Rolling Stones
"I'm so lonesome I could cry" Hank williams, Sr
paranoid android - radiohead
Everybody's gotta learn sometime - Beck
Neighborhood #1 - The Arcade Fire
Lou Reed - Take a walk on the wild side





STOP THE PRESSES!

I've decided not to go with my voting method. Instead, I'm going to let a computer far off in Switzerland do it for me, by a fancy ranked method.

http://www.demochoice.org/dcballot.php?poll=Bestsong

You don't have to rank all of them. Honestly, I'd be surprised if your 31st rank made a difference on the outcome. About 10 or 20 should be enough.


The 8 winners which will be declared will move on to the head-to-head rounds.

OK, so, urg, do it.
 
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You didn't put mine in.

Back in Black is more recognizable than half the songs you have.

And really...."Misty Mountain Hop" as the best Zep song ever? Puh-leeze... ;)
 
Back in Black: 20 million albums sold worldwide.

Cover song is one of most recognizable rock songs ever: used in car commercials, on the Daily Show, and covered by countless bands like Foo Fighers among others.
 
I HATE ACDC.

I could only put thirty-two songs in, and whenever I saw back in black I was just revolted, so I decided to get rid of that one. Certainly nobody with class could vote for it.
 
charver said:
OK...that seems simple enough.

(Pssst...does anybody know what he's talking about?)
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Why, it's simple.

You take the first winner, then you reduce the weight of the votes of the people who selected that winner according to how much it would take to win a seat... if you do this throughout every round, you get proportionality. It's the best system ever, just completely incomprehensible.

But I got rid of all of it because I didn't want to hand count it. Now we're doing STV. I hate STV, it's a much lousier system than what I wanted, but they have a server up that'll do those kinds of polls for you. I prefer the ability to rate and examine every option, but I don't have enough to to hand count all of this.
 
Watermark said:
I HATE ACDC.

I could only put thirty-two songs in, and whenever I saw back in black I was just revolted, so I decided to get rid of that one. Certainly nobody with class could vote for it.
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Oh, okay. I was under the impression you went to the bother of soliciting other's opinions, and weren't creating a list of your own personal favorites.
 
What is this "rond"? Is it some sort of musical terminology that us "unwashed" have never heard of?
 
Watermark said:
I HATE ACDC.

I could only put thirty-two songs in, and whenever I saw back in black I was just revolted, so I decided to get rid of that one. Certainly nobody with class could vote for it.
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Yeah, metallica has got real class. How many metallica songs did you include?
 
And I hate Metallica.

To be honest with you, I DID actually exclude some Metallica songs.

Hell, who actually believes the 20 Metallica songs you guys posted are going to win? Really.
 
i don't care watermark. I'm just jerking your chain.

You've got some fairly obscure stuff on that list. I simply tried to think of a rock song that has stood the test of time, and is recognized virutally worldwide - as a test of "greatness".
 
Cypress said:
i don't care watermark. I'm just jerking your chain.

You've got some fairly obscure stuff on that list. I simply tried to think of a rock song that has stood the test of time, and is recognized virutally worldwide - as a test of "greatness".
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Please. I could compose a more moving song in twenty minutes on my toilet :).
 
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I didn't realize that "moving" was a criteria for best songs ever.

It makes me wonder what this song is doing on your list:

Metallica- Master Of Puppets
 
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